As you may know, the VoiceOver support we had in version 1 is broken in the current version of Bear.
I’m starting to integrate it again and will use this thread to update you on the development.
Meanwhile, do you have some examples of Apps in the Apple ecosystem that excellently implement VoiceOver? Apps that left you surprised about how good the VoiceOver support was. Please also describe shortly why that support was better than the other Apps.
We are very sorry for the lack of VoiceOver support in Bear 2.0, and I will ensure that it will be integrated as soon as possible.
I was behind the VoiceOver implementation on Bear 1, and I’ve been updating my knowledge with all the documentation available from Apple since then.
Because the information you can find is usually very generic and doesn’t consider actual use cases, I was very curious about everything outside the educational field—so real cases of something great that other fellow developers implemented.
I am a sighted user, but do know how to test for accessibility (and have lots of blind friends). The developers that consistently comes to the top of the list for surprising accessibility are those at Rogue Amoeba, makers of apps like Audio Hijack.
The reason it’s surprising that it’s accessible is that the interface is VERY visual. As a sighted user you drag blocks around and watch for audio flow lines to change, combining or single lines. They built Audio Hijack (and all of their current apps) from the ground up to be accessible. I’ve taught 3 blind people to use Audio Hijack in about an hour each and they all took off with it.
Another app that has been lauded for its accessibility is Mona for Mastodon. I haven’t messed around with it in VO myself but it’s one of the big selling features of the app.
